salve

Speech parts

1. salve - Noun

2. salve - Verb

3. salve - Interjection

Meaning

Hail!

To say "Salve" to; to greet; to salute.

An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.

A soothing remedy or antidote.

To heal by applications or medicaments; to cure by remedial treatment; to apply salve to; as, to salve a wound.

To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good; to soothe, as with an ointment, especially by some device, trick, or quibble; to gloss over.

To save, as a ship or goods, from the perils of the sea.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

relieve ointment balm unguent save ease calm comfort heal mitigate salvage assuage soothe unction emollient
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Antonyms

anger irritant arouse ravage aggravate annoy
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Hypernyms

medicine rescue deliver cure therapeutic remedy

Hyponyms

arnica balsam chrism cerate lip balm chrisom

Phrases with the word

skeletal salve body salve vision salve ophthalmic salve sight salve ocular salve

Derivatives

salved salving

Anagrams

slave valse Alves Elvas selva

Examples

I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound. Erica Jong

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation. Roy Barnes

Patience is sorrow's salve. Charles Churchill (satirist)

Pepper in someone else's eyes is a salve. Portuguese Proverb

A fool repays a salve by a stab, and a stab by a salve. Latin Proverb

You anoint the dead man with salve. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Salvatore Salvatorian salvatory salve bug Salve Regina salvee